Potent Pagan Powwow
For six days over the Summer solstice, 200 representatives to the World Pagan Congress met in Vilnius, capital city of […]
The Buttersweet Benefits of Ghee
BY BRAHMACHARINI MAYA TIWARI Vedic seers considered milk to be the most sattvic (peace-producing) food for humankind. From this salubrious
One Pilgrim’s Story
Is it possible to film the Kumbha Mela in all its complex, wild and unruly grandeur? Vancouver director Alan Morinis
Kumbha Mela
With Jono Lineen The tens of millions of Hindus who came to the Kumbha Mela at Haridwar this year were
Finding Peace In Mother Ganga’s Lap
BY BHAGAWATI I sit in silent joy, the cooling Ganga rushing across my toes. A young local ashram child whom
A River of Devotion, A Flood of Spirituality
BY SATGURU SIVAYA SUBRAMUNIYASWAMI K–A BIG K–IS FOR KUMBHA MELA, the largest gathering of humans on Earth–over ten million. It
Telling the Future by Shells
By Vrindavanam S. Gopalakrishnan Jyotish Surendran is in the 19th generation of a family of astrologers who trace their origins
Enrolling in Hinduism
By AJITH BRIDGRAJ The University of Durban-Westville was established in 1960 as an exclusively “Indian” university under the country’s apartheid
Darshan, the Grace Of Seeing the Divine
BY SATGURU SIVAYA SUBRAMUNIYASWAMI In the Orient, whenever the cloud of despair covers the soul of a devotee, the darshan
Flora’s Friend
By Lavina Melwani She’s a natural, and a more enthusiastic spokesperson for nature would be hard to find. Manju Prasad